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Feel Better Now Hot Toddy Recipe

After spending endless hours in the Life in the Short Lane test kitchen, I provide you with a recipe in follow-up to my last post. Consider it my special gift to you. Perhaps it will prove useful during the cold, flu and relatives-who-will-not-leave season:

Virtual Grandma’s Feel Better Now Hot Toddy

Ingredients:

1 oz. brandy, whiskey or whatever the heck you’ve got in the house unless it’s something like strawberry mango rum. (Now that I think about it, strawberry mango rum may be just the cure. Whiskey is considered the most “macho” choice, which in my mind equates most “God awful.” I like the brandy.)

1-2 Tbsp honey

1/4 lemon

1 cup hot water

1 tea bag

cloves or cinnamon stick, if desired

Preparation:

Coat the bottom of a mug or Irish coffee glass with honey. Add the liquor and the juice of the lemon quarter. In a separate mug, prepare hot tea with boiling water. Pour the steaming tea into honey coated mug and stir. Add a cinnamon stick or lemon slice embellished with cloves.

Warning: You may find yourself speaking a foreign language even if you don’t know one.

I am going to have to give this recipe a try. My mother used to drink it at the holidays when we were kids, she doesn’t anymore though. I wonder if she lost that taste for it or if she just doesn’t like it. I’m definitely going to try it.